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Four essays on inductive logic
Sentential Logic Primer
Recent
papers (PDF format):
The neural basis of conceptual combination
Confidence in probabilities affects hypothesis
confirmation
Detecting deception by loading working memory
On the provenance of
judgments of conditional probability
Inductive inference based on probability and similarity
From similarity to inference
Independent Neural Representation of Logical Versus
Linguistic Inference
Similarity and Induction
A Partially
Truth Functional Approach to Indicative Conditionals
Probabilistic coherence and proper scoring rules
Methods for distance-based judgment
aggregation
Formal Learning
Theory in Context
Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference
Recognizing
strong random reals
False consensus bias in contract interpretation
Music perception
among schizophrenia patients (abstract)
Predicting
judged similarity of mammals from their neural representations
Confirmation may
depend on more than probability
Aggregating Forecasts of Chance from Incoherent
and Abstaining Experts
Scalable Algorithms for Aggregating Disparate
Forecasts of Probability
Elementary
proof of a theorem of Jean Ville
Note on an observation by Neil Tennant
Adding Dense, Weighted Connections to WordNet
On Typicality and Vagueness
Real Estate Values and Air Pollution: Measured
Levels and Subjective Expectation
Comparison of confirmation measures
Learning to coordinate: A recursion theoretic
perspective
From Similarity to Chance
Induction as conditional probability judgment
Order Dependence and Jeffrey Conditionalization
Evidential Diversity and Premise Probability in
Young Children's Inductive Judgment
On the Reality of the Conjunction Fallacy
A Different Conjunction Fallacy
Conjunction and the Conjunction Fallacy
Aggregating Disparate Estimates of Chance
A note on concave utility functions
New Evidence for Distinct Right and Left Brain
Systems for Deductive versus Probabilistic Reasoning
Notes on Statistical Tests
No method of ampliative
inference respects conditionalization
Scientific Discovery from the Perspective of
Hypothesis Acceptance
A Note on Superadditive
Probability Judgment
The Relation Between Probability and Evidence Judgment:
An Extension of Support Theory